Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …
🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work
.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.
🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om
So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?
I suspect that the ‘nine figures’ doesn’t include the numbers after the decimal point.
🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton
Brilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.
Thankyou for the heads up @dave
Thankyou for doing the work @manton
🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com
It’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it).
Paging @amerpie
It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some respect on its name.
Ship an update every day. Learn from what works, relentlessly improve what doesn’t.
But companies destroy themselves and empires rot from within, and the people living inside these systems almost never see the collapse coming, because the system itself is the lens through which they view the world.
(A fish doesn’t think “it’s wet in here”)
Joan is mainly writing about AI - but just as important to a 2026 America.
🔗 Followup on the future of AI
Nobody knows anything.
@AndySylvester - coincidentally something i was chatting about just this morning. Our conclusion: If you know nothing - you will never be able to properly use AI.
BUT - as we all know - everybody does know something. In fact likely A LOT - about something - and that no matter how narrow the topic - the depth can be - is - always extraordinary.
Once you have your niche - you are in a position to ask the right questions and understand the answers.
It all fails when you don’t ask questions and don’t understand the answers.
🔗 A Random List of Silly Things I Hate - Tangible Life
Silly? I don’t think so. AND I suspect that @bradenslen and @MitchW would be in full agreement …. 🦯